The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly’s crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco’s Prince Rainier III and France’s Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.
“Fairytales tell imaginary stories. Me, I’m a living person. I exist. If the story of my life as a real women were to be told one day, people would at last discover the real being that I am.”
While there is one winner in each category at the Oscars…
…as the night wears on, there are more and more losers… some take it better then others … some never recover
AND THE OSCAR GOES TO…NOT JUDY GARLAND
But there is more to this story … A year after Grace Kelly won her Oscar, she married Prince Rainier and became Princess Grace of Monaco. In an interview with Shaun Considine for his book, “The Oscar Letters“, Grace recounts: …a friend in New York cautioned her not to attend the Oscar ceremonies, because Judy Garland was going to win for A Star is Born, she was called by the powerful Hollywood columnist, Hedda Hopper. To ensure Garland’s victory, the columnist insisted that Kelly refuse her nomination, by withdrawing her name from the final Oscar ballot. If Judy didn’t win she would do something rash, she would attempt suicide again, Hopper firmly stated. “This made me feel awful,” Princess Grace said. “I told her that it was not my choice, but that of the Academy members and voters. I also suspected that Judy knew nothing of this request.”
